Back in the meadow, where so many had died, no one ever betrayed the deception fashioned to save the life of the Maiden. The helmet was removed from the girl wearing it when she was taken, and the armour. She had light-brown hair and blue eyes. The Anglcyn knew that these were the colours of Jeanette’s hair and eyes. This woman prayed without stopping from the time the enemy attacked them, and continued when she was seized, and then for as long as she could when she was burned to death on the pyre they raised. No one learned her name. Her name was Lysbet Guerin, from the hamlet of Cassaude
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